Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:33:54 +0800 | From | Dave Young <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/4] efi/x86: move efi bgrt init code to early init code |
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On 01/12/17 at 04:20pm, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 12 January 2017 at 09:41, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> wrote: > > Before invoking the arch specific handler, efi_mem_reserve() reserves > > the given memory region through memblock. > > > > efi_bgrt_init will call efi_mem_reserve after mm_init(), at that time > > memblock is dead and it should not be used any more. > > > > efi bgrt code depend on acpi intialization to get the bgrt acpi table, > > moving bgrt parsing to acpi early boot code can make sure efi_mem_reserve > > in efi bgrt code still use memblock safely. > > > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> > > I know this is probably out of scope for you, but since we're moving > things around, any chance we could do so in a manner that will enable > BGRT support for arm64/ACPI? Happy to test/collaborate on this. >
I'm happy to do so, Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com> said he had some investigation on that already, I would like to ask him to help on that.
Already cced him..
Thanks Dave
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